The Executive Council of the ISA Human Rights Section, the Steering Committee of the APSA Human Rights Section and the Council of the IPSA Human Rights Research Committee announce their first joint Conference, "Assessing the state of human rights nine years after 9/11," to take place on 19-20 June 2010 at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

We encourage papers that broadly address the following areas, and will seek to organize a coherent panel around each:

1. Continuities and Changes in US Human Rights Policy: Courts, military commissions, and indefinite detention
2. 9/11 and the Securitization of Migration, Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe and the Americas
3. Civil rights and civil liberties in comparative perspective: Europe and the Americas
4. Transitional Justice after Torture and other Atrocities: the Liberal Democratic Record
5. The ‘root causes’ of terrorism debate: how relevant are social and economic rights violations?
6. International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: Great reinterpretation debates
7. Counterterrorism and transborder human rights violations: Extraordinary rendition, deportation, and secret detention facilities
8. What norms and practices migrated where: Afghanistan, Iraq, the UK, US, and Israel

Deadline for proposals: 14 September 2009
Abstracts of 250-500 words should be sent, in a word document as an attachment, and titled with the author’s name, to: Chandra Lekha Sriram, c.sriram@uel.ac.uk

For more information, visit the webpage: http://misjt.editme.com/

Costs: Please note that no conference fees will be charged, as the respective sections and Roosevelt University will cover costs of the conference venue. However, participants will be expected to cover their own travel, room and board expenses, and the organizers have made arrangements for affordable accommodation (see webpage).

Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram
University of East London School of Law
Duncan House
Stratford High Street
London E15 2JB
tel: +44 (0)2082233361
fax: +44 (02082233381

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